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Southern California woman defrauded over $150 million from U.S. Postal Service
KTLA ^ | April 27, 2024 | Vivian Chow

Posted on 04/28/2024 6:18:50 AM PDT by artichokegrower

A San Gabriel Valley woman pleaded guilty to defrauding over $150 million from the U.S. Postal Service.

Lijuan “Angela” Chen, 51, of Walnut, carried out the scheme by using counterfeit postage to ship tens of millions of packages, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

From November 2019 to May 2023, Chen and her accomplice, Chuanhua “Hugh” Hu, 51, owned and operated a package shipping business in the City of Industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliexpress; angelachen; california; ccp; china; chuanhuahu; cityofindustry; hughhu; ktla; lijuanchen; sangabrielvalley; temu; uspostalservice; usps; walnut
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To: rlmorel

Wow. It’s a brilliant piece. Get an editor (even the best writers benefit from an editor), compress it to standard op-ed length, and shop it to the Wall Street Journal.


41 posted on 04/28/2024 8:47:04 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: Lockbox; P.O.E.

I knew exactly nothing about it, but I had a specific instance where I bought some things, about $20 each (they were cheap, wireless network extenders) and they were absolute crap.

So I tried to arrange sending them back to the company, and the company just told me to keep them and returned my money.

This puzzled me. What the hell was with that? Just keep them?

And when this Universal Postal Service thing came up during Trump’s Presidency, as I read more about it and drilled into it, that made all the sense in the world.

It is one of the reasons we have difficulty competing with them head to head (and it is just one of many factors)

If you are an American manufacturer, you have to have customer support to handle returns, broken product, etc. and shipping costs are a good portion of that.

Chinese firms don’t have the same issue with shipping costs to us, only from us to them, so they can just say “keep it” and come out ahead.

It is a bizarre dynamic.


42 posted on 04/28/2024 8:49:18 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: edwinland

It is one of the reasons I love Free Republic. I see things other Freepers investigate and write up all the time, and I learn a great deal from it. I try to return the favor, though I admit, my wordiness does tend to cloud the explanation.

Thank you for your compliment, though. It means someone knows something they might not have before, and that goes a long way!


43 posted on 04/28/2024 8:51:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

Good post. I have been long aware of the “arrangement” with china. My question is, why do such obviously wrong things go uncorrected? I know the answer of course, grift and corruption.


44 posted on 04/28/2024 9:05:30 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: rlmorel

Thank you, Rimorel, an excellent analysis. Bookmarking for future reference!


45 posted on 04/28/2024 9:11:53 AM PDT by Chicory
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To: artichokegrower

We are going to have to start hanging thieves.

The whole world steals from us.


46 posted on 04/28/2024 9:12:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: blueunicorn6

Having “worked” for a year at the post office for a year when I was young, I am not surprised that anyone could steal from postal employees and not get caught. Many many were complete nitwits.


47 posted on 04/28/2024 9:26:22 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: artichokegrower

Well, the japs used the same technique (U.S. mail) all through the 1930’s to get industrial and military base details back to Japan...

Never stop using things that have worked previously!


48 posted on 04/28/2024 9:32:45 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: artichokegrower
I think I got caught by something like this. I bought a game before it was printed, and the publisher had it direct mailed from China where it was printed instead of the usual container shipping and individual mailing inside the US. I got notified of counterfeit postage so I had to pay $12 shipping to get it.

Quite a few of the buyers had to do that. I don't know if they had a few "mistakes" or if the entire shipment was fraudulently shipped and only some got caught

49 posted on 04/28/2024 10:10:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: exDemMom

This is the same browser you use to read “thousands of research papers”? And yet all that research hasn’t led you to an ad-blocking browser or add-on?


50 posted on 04/28/2024 10:16:33 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: marktwain

Actually it works like this. Overseas shippers send stuff (all the crap we buy from Amazon) via freighter, or air freight, to US businesses called “reshippers”. The reshippers put it in the US mail. It’s a legitimate business model, but some reshippers try to increase profit by using fake postage.

Works the other way too. US products go by mail to Miami, where reshippers box it up and sea-freight it to Rio, Buenos Aires, etc.


51 posted on 04/28/2024 10:19:40 AM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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To: Sequoyah101

“”””I have been long aware of the “arrangement” with china. My question is, why do such obviously wrong things go uncorrected?””””


I believe the major reason government programs do not get corrected is that politicians run for office by spouting some ‘new plan’ to make everyone happy.

On the other hand that is why Trump is popular. He has campaigned on plans like ‘drain the swamp’ to get rid of the ‘obviously wrong things’.


52 posted on 04/28/2024 10:51:13 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: rlmorel
It is a bizarre dynamic.

Not from the MFG view point. They know their cost including shipping and percentage of refunds. So it is more profitable to just refund then any other option. Also the CCP loves this, steal business from American companies putting them out of business. Reduce tax payments to US government, no profit no taxes. Also take US dollars out of USA further hurting the USA.

53 posted on 04/28/2024 10:59:33 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: rlmorel

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS DETAILED INFORMATION. Every Freeper should read it and know about it!!!

Every state Republican party convention should bring this to LIGHT!!!

President Trump is guided by good, period!!! He’s so on target that evil is in it’s biggest fight to preserve it’s gains!!!! YES!!!!


54 posted on 04/28/2024 12:54:07 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: rlmorel

This makes so much sense. While we were building our home and ordering some things on the web, several came damaged. When we contacted the company they said, just keep the item damaged and we’ll send you a new one. Hummmmm...are you sure? I knew something was up but we were in the thick of building.

When I read your synopsis, the word came to me..BINGO!!! That’s why. Plus now, this being known, one can have free back up pieces for free...if they are not ethical persons. This will kill the American venders soon enough.

We must return to a moral and ethical society before we kill each other over cheap goods.


55 posted on 04/28/2024 1:02:44 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: rlmorel

Thanks for the reply. Now really edit the piece and publish it. It’s exactly the sort of thing the WSJ would publish and if not them, then some smaller publication.


56 posted on 04/28/2024 5:13:36 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: edwinland

Thank you for that encouragement. I would need to rewrite it...when I wrote it, as you can see from the screen captures, the USA was still being raked over the coals and treated like a patsy.

I do need to go back and look at the difference now that Communist China’s categorization has changed.


57 posted on 04/28/2024 5:20:20 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: steve86

I use uBlock Origin. But the ads on some websites come through anyway. And I don’t have an ad blocker on my iPad.

The websites where I see Temu ads and so forth are not the same websites where I read research papers. It would be funny (but annoying) if a Temu ad popped up while I was reading the article “5-Formylcytosine mediated DNA-peptide cross-link induces predominantly semi-targeted mutations in both Escherichia coli and human cells” from the most recent issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry.


58 posted on 04/28/2024 6:49:11 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: P.O.E.

But Hu let the dogs out.


59 posted on 04/29/2024 6:19:38 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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